This book describes the emerging field of self-organizing, multicore, distributed and real-time embedded systems. Self-organization of both hardware and software can be a key technique to handle the growing complexity of modern computing systems. Distributed systems running hundreds of tasks on dozens of processors, each equipped with multiple cores,... more...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the third IFIP TC 10 International Embedded Systems Symposium, IESS 2009, held in Langenargen, Germany, in September 2009. The 28 revised papers were selected from 46 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on modelling; transaction level modelling; scheduling and real-time systems;... more...